The Bride They Buried Alive
For six years Lila has played the perfect invisible daughter. Plain, quiet, worthless. Just to survive her cruel, status-obsessed family. While her golden sister shines in the spotlight, Lila secretly thrives as rising actress Liora Vale. No one knows the woman she really is. Starved for even a scrap of love, she has learned to disappear so completely that she almost believes the lie herself.
When her sister refuses to marry the broken heir Damien Blackthorn, Lila is sacrificed in her place. Everyone expects her to become the silent, obedient wife to a man the world pities. But the moment she accidentally falls into Damien's lap, he sees straight through her mask. And he chooses her.
Trapped in his estate, Lila discovers Damien isn't broken at all. He is being slowly poisoned by his own uncle and he is far more dangerous than anyone realises. Two people who have spent their entire lives performing are now bound together, each hiding lethal secrets, while Lila's family and Damien's uncle close in from both sides.
In a house full of cameras and carefully constructed warmth, they begin, slowly and dangerously, to stop performing. But his uncle has been running this operation for over a decade.
And he did not choose Lila by accident.